MEMOIRS 



purpofe of making a circular coach-road 

 from the ftreet to the hall- door ; a facrifice 

 of beauty to convenience, and one of many 

 proofs, that alteration and improvement are 

 not always fynonimous terms. To this ru$ m 

 wbe, of Darwinian creation, reforted, from 

 it's early rifing, a knot of philofophic friends, 

 infrequent vifitation. The Rev. Mr. Michell, 

 many years deceafed. He was fkilled in 

 aftronomic fcience, modeft and wife. The 

 ingenious Mr. Kier, of Weft Bromich, then 

 Captain Kier. Mr. Boulton, known and re- 

 fpec~ted wherever mechanic philofophy is 

 underftood. Mr. Watt, the celebrated im- 

 prover of the fteam engine. And, above all 

 others in Dr. Darwin's perfonal regard, the 

 accomplifhed Dr. Small, of Birmingham, 

 who bore the blufhing honours of his talents 

 and virtues to an untimely grave. 



About the year 1705, came to Lich- 

 field, from the neighbourhood of Reading, 

 .the young and gay philofopher, Mr. Edge- 



worth, 



